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that lois lerner improperly shared information, confidential taxpayer information with the fec. first of all, did you subpoena a subpoena to the fec and is that information that i just said about sharing confidential information is, that correct? >> they are both correct. we sent -- we asked for the correspondence and any records left back to 1986 when lois lerner became the head of the fec. greta, understands, we now have lois lerner as a criminal conspirator in this activity we don't know who all she conspired with ways and means have referred criminal charges. we of course have held her in contempt for improperly not telling us the truth after she said things like i didn't break any rules. i didn't break any laws. she broke rules, she broke laws, and it's very clear after the grassley revelation this is somebody who was trying to hurt people with her actions. she didn't always get away with it like when she sent 1.1 million records to the department of justice hoping to get prosecution against these 501 c 4s. it didn't always work but she sure tried. >> the president says it'
that lois lerner improperly shared information, confidential taxpayer information with the fec. first of all, did you subpoena a subpoena to the fec and is that information that i just said about sharing confidential information is, that correct? >> they are both correct. we sent -- we asked for the correspondence and any records left back to 1986 when lois lerner became the head of the fec. greta, understands, we now have lois lerner as a criminal conspirator in this activity we don't...
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when the fec considered "fahrenheit 9/11," the fec said it was fine because it was a commercial movie. that was not prohibited. but when citizens united came in and asked about "hillary," fec said, nope, sorry, that was banned. i cannot tell the difference between the two movies. except one thing says bad things about george bush, a republican, and the other says bad things about hillary clinton, who was a democrat. you say bad things about the republican, you're fine. if you say bad things about a democrat, you're going to be banned. what about pastors and churches? can the government now get in there and tell a priest he cannot talk to his congregation because it may somehow have something to do with politics? this amendment would seem to permit congress to do that. what about bloggers? what if your companies try to make documentaries that the mainstream media do not onsider? we have seen it with the citizens united movie. let's not forget the facts of the case. notwithstanding the hyperbolic press coverage, it was about a film and whether it could be seen and bought on pay-per-view
when the fec considered "fahrenheit 9/11," the fec said it was fine because it was a commercial movie. that was not prohibited. but when citizens united came in and asked about "hillary," fec said, nope, sorry, that was banned. i cannot tell the difference between the two movies. except one thing says bad things about george bush, a republican, and the other says bad things about hillary clinton, who was a democrat. you say bad things about the republican, you're fine. if...
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when the fec considered saidenheit 9/11," the fec it was fine because it was a commercial movie. when citizens united came in and said about "hillary," fec that was banned. i cannot tell the difference between the two movies. he say bad things about the republican, you're fine. if you say bad things about a democrat, wraps you're going to be banned. what about pastors and churches? can the government now get in there and tell a priest he cannot talk to his congregation because it may somehow have something to do with politics? this amendment would seem to permit congress to do that. what about bloggers? what if your companies try to make documentaries that the ia do notm med consider? we have seen it with the citizens united movie. let's not forget the facts of the case. it was about a film and whether it could be seen and bought on pay-per-view cable by adults in the privacy of their own home. no, mccain feingold said you cannot watch that movie in the privacy on your own home on pay-per-view cable. that was the fact. i went to this report. wes is not a situation where are talki
when the fec considered saidenheit 9/11," the fec it was fine because it was a commercial movie. when citizens united came in and said about "hillary," fec that was banned. i cannot tell the difference between the two movies. he say bad things about the republican, you're fine. if you say bad things about a democrat, wraps you're going to be banned. what about pastors and churches? can the government now get in there and tell a priest he cannot talk to his congregation because it...
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during his time at the fec, don led what has been called a revolution in campaign finance. rewriting virtually all of the fec's procedures for audits and enforcement matters and advisory opinions. he's worked in private practice at mcgahn and associates patent boggs and today joined jones day government regulation practice. served as general counsel of the national republican congressional committee for ten years. featured in the "wall street journal" and "new york times" and his writings have appeared in national publications including politico, roll call, the hill and the washington examiner. he's addressed members of congress at several retreats regarding ethics and appeared numerous times on television including fox news, pbs and c-span. don is a graduate of the university of notre dame and he received his jd from widener university school of law and last but not least hear from hans von spakovsky a veener legal fellow here at heritage and the manager of heritage's election law reform initiative. hans writes on a wide range of issues including civil rights, first amendm
during his time at the fec, don led what has been called a revolution in campaign finance. rewriting virtually all of the fec's procedures for audits and enforcement matters and advisory opinions. he's worked in private practice at mcgahn and associates patent boggs and today joined jones day government regulation practice. served as general counsel of the national republican congressional committee for ten years. featured in the "wall street journal" and "new york times"...
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so that would be like the fec for instance, there was at least one email that went to the fec. was the commissioner, i mean, was he lying or was he cagey? what would be his motive? because he comes into this late. it's not like he has been there since 2009 and sending emails himself. >> you know, greta, i think you ask the same question all of us ask which is this person covering things up or is it just gross incompetence? when you say that targeting is not going on, as the last commissioner said and it was. clearly you are either lying or you weren't providing very good oversight. when someone like the president says nobody in d.c. knew about it. it was only people in cincinnati and we find out, in fact, that wasn't a true statement, i think the president probably didn't just didn't have all the information. >> not accusing the president of being cagey. you think the president being uninformed. >> he is trying to make declarative statements that this is somehow a made up conspiracy. we are somehow on a witch-hunt. the problem is the facts keep coming out proving otherwise. in
so that would be like the fec for instance, there was at least one email that went to the fec. was the commissioner, i mean, was he lying or was he cagey? what would be his motive? because he comes into this late. it's not like he has been there since 2009 and sending emails himself. >> you know, greta, i think you ask the same question all of us ask which is this person covering things up or is it just gross incompetence? when you say that targeting is not going on, as the last...
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you know that if you just review an fec report, all you would see is the name and amount donation. there would be no indication that you would have reimbursed anybody. if it was just a routine review, it doesn't seem it would be sufficient to trigger that type of inquiry. can you explain how a routine review of an fec filing would have led to a reimbursement indictment? >> i guess i don't want to talk about the particular case but i could imagine a circumstance in which if you saw a bunch of checks to a candidate coming from a similar business or seem connected to a particular person it may expose the straw donation scheme, but i don't know the case well enough and couldn't comment anyway. >> i think that's not been my experience. there have been families who donate and if that would be enough to trigger it, you would see more. you don't see this much cases being brought criminally and i know that's not your decision but i'd like to maybe explore that with you some more some other time in private. my time is expired and the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from washington for fi
you know that if you just review an fec report, all you would see is the name and amount donation. there would be no indication that you would have reimbursed anybody. if it was just a routine review, it doesn't seem it would be sufficient to trigger that type of inquiry. can you explain how a routine review of an fec filing would have led to a reimbursement indictment? >> i guess i don't want to talk about the particular case but i could imagine a circumstance in which if you saw a bunch...
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a bun of elected bureaucrats at the fec. imagine going to the department of motor vehicle answer convince them you're really the media. do you want faceless bureaucrats doing that i understand the department of motor vehicles has come a long way in d.c. and virginia and i don't want to cast aspersions there but it's convenient scapegoat. as far as the -- as far as a convention maybe but that takes a little bit long term thinking of sort we're not seeing right now. i think what we see is strategy between now and november. and i think what you see are incumbents desperately clinging to power. >> bobby, do you have anything you want to add? hans? >> i think we're deing with a well-established powerful and well-funded constituency that has for two or three decades advocated increasingly severe restrictions on campaign finance reform -- on campaign finances and interestingly one of their big issues is this so-called dark money issue. well, where do they get their money? none of these groups advocating for increasing disclosure an
a bun of elected bureaucrats at the fec. imagine going to the department of motor vehicle answer convince them you're really the media. do you want faceless bureaucrats doing that i understand the department of motor vehicles has come a long way in d.c. and virginia and i don't want to cast aspersions there but it's convenient scapegoat. as far as the -- as far as a convention maybe but that takes a little bit long term thinking of sort we're not seeing right now. i think what we see is...
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fec --v host stop the the fcc from creating internet fast lanes? even if the fcc website went down briefly -- alibaba is superstitious in planning its ipo. say the founders both see in august 8 ipo as a good omen. the number eight is considered lucky in china because it sounds like the word for posterity. baba as its prefer ticker symbol. the justice department says they will review the 1941 agreement with bmi which still governs song related royalties today. people have complained that the agreements don't take into account the rise of digital media. calling for a 60 day period of public comments. fcc islead story, the facing a growing backlash against its plan to redefine net neutrality and create internet fast lanes. tens of thousands of people flocked to the fcc website after john oliver urged viewers to post comments in a 13 minute monologue in support of net neutrality. >> that's right. the fcc are inviting internet comments at this address. at this point -- i can't believe i'm about to do this -- i would like to address the internet commente
fec --v host stop the the fcc from creating internet fast lanes? even if the fcc website went down briefly -- alibaba is superstitious in planning its ipo. say the founders both see in august 8 ipo as a good omen. the number eight is considered lucky in china because it sounds like the word for posterity. baba as its prefer ticker symbol. the justice department says they will review the 1941 agreement with bmi which still governs song related royalties today. people have complained that the...
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according to the fec, 96% of all campaign contributions from ivy league faculty and employees went t barack obama. are you surprised? >> that's the point. it's trickling down from the gurus of garbage. the only entity less tolerant than the teacher's lounge is the taliban, which smells better. the debate is like a gym for an argument. these students exit these campuses intellectually flabby. >> the complaint to hr about being bullied all the time. i don't know anything like that. eric, i want to ask you today that 33% that people 18 to 24 are now living with their parents. this is right after college and fully a third are living with their parents. >> that's scary. that was a great speech and he went on, bloomberg continued on and actually cited that 96 or 7 97% of faculty members who donate to democrats. we literally pointed out where's the open mindedness of this and seeing the argument on that. he pushed back on that. you have to tip your hand. the people in the stand, they don't look very happy. >> that was the interesting thing. the content of that speech, instead of being one -
according to the fec, 96% of all campaign contributions from ivy league faculty and employees went t barack obama. are you surprised? >> that's the point. it's trickling down from the gurus of garbage. the only entity less tolerant than the teacher's lounge is the taliban, which smells better. the debate is like a gym for an argument. these students exit these campuses intellectually flabby. >> the complaint to hr about being bullied all the time. i don't know anything like that....
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worth of e-mails from lois lerner to outside agencies including the white house, department of justice, fec, treasury, and democratic members of congress. so it's very important distinction to make that they -- >> why not? [ overlapping speakers ] >> why? are they saying they don't control the white house so you have to go to the white house for that? >> they are just saying a computer glitch erased half of the e-mails, only the ones going out to outside agencies and so the reaction on capitol hill is anger, chairman of the oversight committee investigating this for a very long time said does the irs really expect us to believe this actually happened. >> a computer glitch. >> are they gone. >> a mainframe system of the entire irs computer heart because computer glitch, if i throw them out, there is a record of the e-mails. >> there is this thing called the internet where we can search things. >> and there is a legal obligation to retain such things in the course of a litigation or under legal investigation. >> it's very important to point out the double standard is glaring. the irs requires
worth of e-mails from lois lerner to outside agencies including the white house, department of justice, fec, treasury, and democratic members of congress. so it's very important distinction to make that they -- >> why not? [ overlapping speakers ] >> why? are they saying they don't control the white house so you have to go to the white house for that? >> they are just saying a computer glitch erased half of the e-mails, only the ones going out to outside agencies and so the...
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the fec. to secretary treasury. the attorney general of the united states and also to the chairman of the finance committee. what do you want? >> well, first, the hard drive allegedly crashed at the irs conveniently 2009 to 2011 just when all the conservative targetingas going on. but there isinformation there wl correspondence with these other agencies of government. justice department, federal election commission, treasury department, an email that they have correspondence with lois lerner, that be turned over to the committee. nip not pursuing. i realize you are in the minority in the senate. are organizations not willing to do this search from top to bottom to see whether lois lerner is doing anything inappropriate vis-a-vis emails. sharing confidential information. >> we're going to find that out o. i hope. we will see how responsive they are. the irs has not been responsive. we have had an investigation finance committee going on some time now. they're not getting back to us. it's just they are doing everythin
the fec. to secretary treasury. the attorney general of the united states and also to the chairman of the finance committee. what do you want? >> well, first, the hard drive allegedly crashed at the irs conveniently 2009 to 2011 just when all the conservative targetingas going on. but there isinformation there wl correspondence with these other agencies of government. justice department, federal election commission, treasury department, an email that they have correspondence with lois...
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bizarrely, the fec does not seem to be focused on options as stocks themselves. it clearly a place they've missed. in part of type of litigation they've pursue and more importantly, seem to miss regularly according to the study, activities that get announced and not completed. a deceit get announced, not completed, a 22% less likely chance they will go after that deal. i don't know if it's because computers operate too slowly or don't realize that's happens. that's the case and quite pervasive in a way frankly somebody who covered mergers of past decade, i knew there was something amiss but didn't realize it was this far afield. >> and perhaps, andrew, as disturbing as the numbers we bring you, say 1 in 4 and 25%, you allude to the sec litigates less than 5% of the 1,800 m & a deals included in the sample from these professors. >> and clearly go after -- look, there is an issue of resources. they spend their time looking at the biggest transactions, and the biggest players, and to some degree you could argue looking for the biggest headlines to the extent they ca
bizarrely, the fec does not seem to be focused on options as stocks themselves. it clearly a place they've missed. in part of type of litigation they've pursue and more importantly, seem to miss regularly according to the study, activities that get announced and not completed. a deceit get announced, not completed, a 22% less likely chance they will go after that deal. i don't know if it's because computers operate too slowly or don't realize that's happens. that's the case and quite pervasive...
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we did is we are interested in looking at the litigation reports that are publicly available on the fec webpage and among those cases again we found a specific context and there was about 8000 reports and we filtered through those that involve option trading and in particular option trading and in many cases. gerri: patrick, some people maintain that insider trading is a victimless crime and no one gets hurt. after all people are always trading, making bets on information that they feel is something that only they know. do you agree with that point of you? >> i don't think i can take a stand on this. it's out of my field of study. i don't want to take a stand. gerri: understood. but, when you look at this are you surprised there aren't more prosecutions in this arena? >> what we find is that there are relatively few number of cases compared to the strong statistical evidence. however, very might be eight reasonable explanation for that. again, i am speculating, but one reason might be that only civil litigations and criminal litigations that would show up there. because a whistleblower
we did is we are interested in looking at the litigation reports that are publicly available on the fec webpage and among those cases again we found a specific context and there was about 8000 reports and we filtered through those that involve option trading and in particular option trading and in many cases. gerri: patrick, some people maintain that insider trading is a victimless crime and no one gets hurt. after all people are always trading, making bets on information that they feel is...
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from lerner taking the fifth or email to the fec sharing confidential taxpayer information to last night's real big bombshell that lerner was target guilty a republican u.s. senator. so bogus her irs colleague had to pull her off the ceiling. the american people illegal. >> the bottom line of this decision online justices said to the president if the senate tells you it's in session. it's in session. now we wait to find out what happens to the 1,000 plus decisions the board made when those appointees were sitting on the board. >> and senator tim scott joins us. good evening, sir. >> thank you, greta. it's good to be back with you. >> what do you think, sir. 9-orecess appointments check mate of the president on this one. >> absolutely necessary rebuke of the president. necessary. everyone needs to fault laws of the country. we heard just recently by the irs and now we see the nlrb the far reaching impact of their decisions reached home in south carolina where boeing and working class folks who were looking to an opportunity to go back to work were going to lose that opportunity because of t
from lerner taking the fifth or email to the fec sharing confidential taxpayer information to last night's real big bombshell that lerner was target guilty a republican u.s. senator. so bogus her irs colleague had to pull her off the ceiling. the american people illegal. >> the bottom line of this decision online justices said to the president if the senate tells you it's in session. it's in session. now we wait to find out what happens to the 1,000 plus decisions the board made when...
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so even if she had a crash, whoever received it at the fec or if she wrote to the doj or anything, they should have them. >> greta. every email she sent out went to somebody on the other end. the problem is, except for the nsa under this administration. who has all those emails? >> well, can't you drop a subpoena? can you make the fes go to work? make the doj go to work. have you subpoena power. >> remember, much of her activity could have been with the committee to reelect president obama. >> you can serve a subpoena on them? >> can i serve a subpoenaen othe democratic national committee. >> well, get going. >> but, in fact, that kind of a fishing expedition is what henry waxman did under as predecessor of mine. and he did so because he just generally had an idea. we would like to be pragmatic and positive and reasonable. but right now when the irs falsely holds this information back, that they knew under multiple commissioners, our first responsibility, dave camp and myself is to put the commissioner in front of us and ask us what -- ask him what did he know and when did he know it an
so even if she had a crash, whoever received it at the fec or if she wrote to the doj or anything, they should have them. >> greta. every email she sent out went to somebody on the other end. the problem is, except for the nsa under this administration. who has all those emails? >> well, can't you drop a subpoena? can you make the fes go to work? make the doj go to work. have you subpoena power. >> remember, much of her activity could have been with the committee to reelect...
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know but, but i wouldn't buy that there are reports that lerner was emailing back and forth with the fec about the tea party and sharing confidential information. that's against the law. she is a lawyer. she knew it by the way, if i were lerner's lawyer, the mere chance those missing emails may get recovered from some recipient email's account would scare the pants off me. but right now, unless something else surfaces, lois lerner, who took the fifth, and now says her dog ate her homework hit the jackpot. and that's my yawch the record comment tonight. and governor sarah palin at odds with quarterback brett favre, what did the former governor and football star fighting over? n you have to see it next. so there i was again, explaining my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoas to another new stylist. it was a total earrassment. and t the kind of attention wanted. so i had a serus talk with my dermatologt about my treatment options. this time, she prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps tclear the surface of my skin by actuallrking inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with mo
know but, but i wouldn't buy that there are reports that lerner was emailing back and forth with the fec about the tea party and sharing confidential information. that's against the law. she is a lawyer. she knew it by the way, if i were lerner's lawyer, the mere chance those missing emails may get recovered from some recipient email's account would scare the pants off me. but right now, unless something else surfaces, lois lerner, who took the fifth, and now says her dog ate her homework hit...
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. >> professor raskin says the supreme court decision in citizens united versus fec eliminate this extra provision quote that kept trillions of dollars in corporate while from flowing into federal campaigns, unquote. i think that's a misleading description of the case. as i read it, the citizens united case involved a nonprofit organization not a wealthy for-profit corporation and the case is not involved campaign contributions at all. am i right? >> yes, it did not involve contributions at all, and it left standing the contribution of section. >> have we seen a flood of corporate while the flooding into campaign since the since united decision? >> we have seen a lot of individuals giving money. that's where the big money has come from. we have seen some, an increase in the knot of money from what i called main street rather than wall street. but we have not seen is precisely what was predicted to we have not seen enormous sums, let alone trillions of dollars from the biggest companies in america flowing into the electoral process. that just hasn't happened. spent my time is up, mr. chai
. >> professor raskin says the supreme court decision in citizens united versus fec eliminate this extra provision quote that kept trillions of dollars in corporate while from flowing into federal campaigns, unquote. i think that's a misleading description of the case. as i read it, the citizens united case involved a nonprofit organization not a wealthy for-profit corporation and the case is not involved campaign contributions at all. am i right? >> yes, it did not involve...
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e-mails that are missing, only the e-mails that are going to the white house, department of justice, fec and outside groups are missing. half the e-mails she has, the ones going to inside the agency, she doesn't have the ones going outside the irs, which would be the most damning of the e-mails from january 2009 to april 2011. i think we need to focus on what we do have. we have e-mail from lois learner sending information of information to groups to the fbi. we have e-mails showing her talking to staffers of democratic congressman on the hill and we have e-mails showing she was working with the department of justice to get a criminal case together to prosecute one of these groups to send the message to all of them. >> do you think, gavin mcguinness, that they are involved in a massive coverup and that they could possibly get caught? >> yes. i think both are true. i think it will be easy to catch them once we get serious about what's going on here. e-mails don't disappear. anyone who knows anything about computers is the only way you you can fully destroy something is physically snap a h
e-mails that are missing, only the e-mails that are going to the white house, department of justice, fec and outside groups are missing. half the e-mails she has, the ones going to inside the agency, she doesn't have the ones going outside the irs, which would be the most damning of the e-mails from january 2009 to april 2011. i think we need to focus on what we do have. we have e-mail from lois learner sending information of information to groups to the fbi. we have e-mails showing her talking...
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piece together criminal charges for people like myself with no evidence and they wanted to get the fec involved. we have a multi effort to persecute the american citizens. and people better wake up because it will get worse if not addressed. >> how do you feel about the fact the justice department isn't doing anything? you cannot get a special prosecutor unless you get the white house and justice department on board. do you think you will ever learn the truth and see the end of this? >> i am thinking that if we have enough outpouring of public support we can get a special prosecutor. i am going to keep pushing for that. but i am wondering is it time for a select committee like they had on benghazi? we know illegal things were done and the democrats want to say this is a conspiracy and nothing to see here. well they need to talk to the victi victims, read the reports and lawsuits and see much damage has been done. people need to be held accountable. >> has the white house approached you or any of the people in the same boat as you to say what happened to you exact exactly? >> no, i have
piece together criminal charges for people like myself with no evidence and they wanted to get the fec involved. we have a multi effort to persecute the american citizens. and people better wake up because it will get worse if not addressed. >> how do you feel about the fact the justice department isn't doing anything? you cannot get a special prosecutor unless you get the white house and justice department on board. do you think you will ever learn the truth and see the end of this?...
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we'll subpoena every single government agency that lois lerner talked to, that's the fec, federal elections commission, department of treasury, that's going to be the department of justice and others. she may have lost her e-mails, but people received those e-mails. so the people that received them are going to need to turn them over. and in the allegations of the our complaint if they've eliminated the evidence and can't produce them, it's deemed admitted under federal law. so, you know, first of all, they also violated the federal records act. so you've got a whole series of violations here. let me tell you something, martha, if i was lois lerner's attorney after all this, i'd be telling her to take the fifth amendment, too, because what she's done and what she's allowed people to do is criminal. very interesting side note, on the e-mail when she requests assistance, technical assistance -- which, by the way, they never went to the fbi to recover these files. in the technical assistance, do you know what the subject line of her e-mail reads? be careful what you ask for. and i think the sa
we'll subpoena every single government agency that lois lerner talked to, that's the fec, federal elections commission, department of treasury, that's going to be the department of justice and others. she may have lost her e-mails, but people received those e-mails. so the people that received them are going to need to turn them over. and in the allegations of the our complaint if they've eliminated the evidence and can't produce them, it's deemed admitted under federal law. so, you know, first...
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now they have about four times of the press conference after the fec annually, so what amount do you think is appropriate? and how would you evaluate the security system not only inside the united states? i know you want to focus on the united states, but how would you evaluate the federal reserve within the central banks in terms of macroeconomic policy? thank you. >> your question is twofold. on the first part of your question, you are saying essentially the fed today communicates four times a year and has those heavy duty press conferences. what is our recommendation? well, first of all, we would observe that the communication by the fed is pretty efficient and needs to continue to be efficient. given what i described as the uncertainty versus certainty, in other words, uncertainty about the outlook, question about, you know, the texture of the labor market, questions about the participation rate, question about the longer term unemployment on the one hand, and the certainty that seems to be displayed by markets. we think that it's really important that the fed continues to do tha
now they have about four times of the press conference after the fec annually, so what amount do you think is appropriate? and how would you evaluate the security system not only inside the united states? i know you want to focus on the united states, but how would you evaluate the federal reserve within the central banks in terms of macroeconomic policy? thank you. >> your question is twofold. on the first part of your question, you are saying essentially the fed today communicates four...
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if you just review an fec report, there would be no indication that you would have reimbursed anybody. >> i can imagine circumstance in which if you saw a bunch of checks to a dand dat all coming from a particular candidate, that might lead to inquiry being made. i couldn't comment on it anyway. >> that's not been my experience. there would be families to donate. you don't see this many cases being brought criminally. i know that's not your decision. but i'd like to maybe explore that with you some more maybe some other time in private. >> i, as well as my colleagues, have been deeply disturbed. i know that the department of justice continues to consult with the office of the inspect general and their review. and at this point, they are looking at 69 v.a. facilities. i wanted to understand -- do you think you're going to look more broadly given that there are other facilities engaged beyond t the phoenix issues? >> thank you for the question. it's not something i could answer at this point. i don't think i would answer anyway, about a criminal investigation. the phoenix office is wher
if you just review an fec report, there would be no indication that you would have reimbursed anybody. >> i can imagine circumstance in which if you saw a bunch of checks to a dand dat all coming from a particular candidate, that might lead to inquiry being made. i couldn't comment on it anyway. >> that's not been my experience. there would be families to donate. you don't see this many cases being brought criminally. i know that's not your decision. but i'd like to maybe explore...
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failure to retain -- whatever the mechanism of the failure, intentional or negligent, you said maybe the fec will save the day. you have someone that said we need a project but we need to make sure it's not per se political. and then the e-mails. what negative inference would you draw if you were one of our fellow citizens? watching this, you know there was a denial of targeting. you know she picked a very obscure conference to disclose that targeting had taken place. you know it was blamed on two rogue agents. in fact, jay carney perpetuated that myth. you know she took the fifth amendment. you know that president of the united states said there is not a smithon of corruption and now you're told the evidence doesn't exist, e-mails don't exist. what negative inference, if you were a regular citizen sitting at home watching this, and you got that litany of failed defenses, those all statements and now you're told that evidence doesn't exist, what negative inference would you draw? >> one of the things that i found constructive in the material that became public in the last week was that she s
failure to retain -- whatever the mechanism of the failure, intentional or negligent, you said maybe the fec will save the day. you have someone that said we need a project but we need to make sure it's not per se political. and then the e-mails. what negative inference would you draw if you were one of our fellow citizens? watching this, you know there was a denial of targeting. you know she picked a very obscure conference to disclose that targeting had taken place. you know it was blamed on...
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that theybelieve mccutchen versus fec case were poorly decided and really tilted the campaign-finance claims for the wealthy. host: let's listen to what the majority leader had to say at the hearing yesterday. [video clip] >> outside groups spent more than $1 billion. that is a conservative estimate. that is about as much money as was spent in the previous 12 elections. but this spike in the mentor amount ofmoney -- shadow we money is not surprising. recent decisions by the supreme court, citizens united and mccutchen, eviscerated our campaign-finance laws. the cynics may scoff at the idea of us working together on an initiative. that long ago that the issue of campaign finance reform enjoyed support from democrats and republicans. likelihood orthe when when this amendment you voted on? what is the process? guest: constitutional amendments are a huge undertaking. in two thirdsotes of the houses of both congress. thes no surprise constitution has not been amended very many times in our history. and this is a huge uphill battle for supporters. you've even heard mitch mcconnell, who also
that theybelieve mccutchen versus fec case were poorly decided and really tilted the campaign-finance claims for the wealthy. host: let's listen to what the majority leader had to say at the hearing yesterday. [video clip] >> outside groups spent more than $1 billion. that is a conservative estimate. that is about as much money as was spent in the previous 12 elections. but this spike in the mentor amount ofmoney -- shadow we money is not surprising. recent decisions by the supreme court,...
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that theybelieve mccutchen versus fec case were poorly deced the more recent mccutchen versus fcc case in a number of other campaign-finance regulations decided until to the campaign finance plan towards the wealthy. >> host: but listen to what the majority leader, harry reid had to say at this hearing yesterday. >> outside groups spent more than $1 billion. that is a conservative estimate. that is about as much money as was spent in the previous 12 elections. but this bike in the amount of shadowy money being pumped into elections isn't surprising. recent decisions rendered by the united states supreme court, i've mentioned citizens united, mccutchen, have eviscerated our campaign-finance laws and open the floodgates for special interests. the sonics may scoff at us working together on an issue as critical as good government. but it wasn't all that long ago the issue of campaign finance reform enjoys support from both democrats and republicans. >> host: so what is the likelihood or when would this amendment be voted on? what is the process here? >> well, can't no amendments are a huge
that theybelieve mccutchen versus fec case were poorly deced the more recent mccutchen versus fcc case in a number of other campaign-finance regulations decided until to the campaign finance plan towards the wealthy. >> host: but listen to what the majority leader, harry reid had to say at this hearing yesterday. >> outside groups spent more than $1 billion. that is a conservative estimate. that is about as much money as was spent in the previous 12 elections. but this bike in the...